Filter



Patented Nova :9, 1926.

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ILT R.

Application filed September This invention relates to fiilters and more particularly to so-called percolators in coinbination wit-h water coolers. V One of the objects of this invention is to provide a levice whereby a bottle with common unfiltered water 'may be disposed on top of a jar so that the water from the bottle will discharge into the lower jar the level of the water in the lower jar comes below the opening of the upper bottle, having a filter disposed in the jar at a point between the opening of the bottle and the jar.

Another object is to provide a filtering vessel within a cooling jar in combination with a bottle disposed over the jar to discharge into the filtering vessel, by reason of the fact that the end of thebottle reaches downwardly to a point below the top edge of the inserted vessel in the jar so that the water level in the jar will be below the top edge of the inserted vessel.

Another object is to provide a. packing ring within the top end of such a jar to en tend downwardly to a point in relationto such an inserted vessel so as to guide a bot: tie into the inserted vessel when placed over such a jar. 7

Other objects will appear from the following description and appended claims as well as from the accompanying drawing, in which The figure is a vertical mid-sectional view of a filtering vessel embodying my invention disposed in a cooling jar and having a bottle illustrated disposed over the cooling jar with its discharging end extending into the filtering vessel.

The main object of this invention is to provide a device by which any common unfiltered water in a bottle may be disposed on top of a cooler in conjunction with a device according to my invention so that fil tered water may be drawn from the cooler while the level of the water in the cooler is maintained by having the opening of the bottle dipped into the water in the jar. The bottle 1 illustrated in the drawing is so disposed with its open end 2 into and'on top of the jar 3. The water level in the jar is thereby easily maintained at a point indi cated at 4. A filtering body in form ofan open-top vessel is disposed in the jar 3 as indicated at 5.

The water discharging from the bottle 1 'n-iust therefore, under this arrangement,

8, 1924. Serial No. 736,585.

first discharge intothe filtering vessel 5 and the level of the water in the filteringbody 5 IS in reality controlled by the position of the end 2 of'the bottle 1 in relation 'to' mally only pass from the inside oi the ves sel 5 into the jar 3 proper to, the extent as the vessel 5 allows a percolating or filtering of1 the water through the walls of the vesse 5.

Such a filtering vessel, of course, may be of special filtering material or specialfiltering rock-formation not particularly described in this application as long as made of a form to allow an arrangement as disclosed in this application. 1

To avoid a passing of unfiltered water from the bottle 1 to the jar 3 proper, outside of thefiltering body 5 within the jar 3, a guiding member 8 is preferably inserted between the body 1 and the jar 3 on the one hand, andalso between the bottle 1 and the inserted filtering vessel 5 on the other hand. The guiding member 8' is in form of a packing ring to seat the bottle 1 on top of the jar 3 with an extension extending centrally and downwardly as indicated at 9 .so that the discharging end 2 oi the bottle 1 may safely be dropped or dis: posed into the filtering vessel 5 on exchanging or refilling the bottle 1- v No dirt or sediment or other unclean matter can get into the filter or jar proper. The jar 3 is therefore always clean, and the Water contained directly in the jar is as well clean.

Any sediment or any 'uncleanliness suspended in the unfiltered water in the bottle 1 can only pass into the filter body: or vessel 5;

The filter body or vessel 5 is easily cleaned by being removed from and lifted out of the jar 3 through the top opening of the jar. When so removed from the, ar,v

this vessel 5 is easily freed of any sediment cor uncleanliness accumulated within the After havlng been hollow of the v'essel 5. cleaned the vessel 5 is ,merely placed back into the jar and may then again be usedafor filtering water from the bottle). before it a reaches the jar 3,

Having thus described my invention, I claim: i

1. In combination an inverted Water bottle on top of the jar,

a filtering vessel Within'the jar closed ex rcept for the open top extending with its top edge above theopening of the inverted bot tie in the jar and being made of porous material sothat the Water level in the v esseleontrols the Water level insnid jarfat a point near the mouth of the inverted bottle. 2. In combination with a Water jar and an inverted bottle disposed over the top of theyar, a filtering vessel ciosedexcept for the open top disposed within the jar of a size to be exchengable through. the opening of the j ai" andextendi'ng; in length from the bottom of the jar to a point above the open- With a Water jar and m of the inverted bottle Withili'tllfi, and being made of porous filtering material. e v

3. In a filter, an open-top Water-jar hziving discharging means at a point spaced distinctly from the top, a second open-top jar disposed inside of the first-named made of porous filtering material of a size to fit through the top opening of thefirstnamed jar, and a Water vesiel in inverted position placed on top out the first-named.

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